>> and a bay area man sent in hundreds of dollars believing he'd won millions in a sweepstakes. >> i'm going to get something out of it, but when i don't know. >> 8 on your side has some red flags to help you keep your money safe. good evening. i'm jennifer leigh. >> i'm keith cate. thank you for joining us tonight. we have three bay area students suspended after showing up at school dressed like members of the kkk, but they weren't the only ones making bad choices during spirit week at their wesley chapel high school. what these kids did whether on purpose or not contributed to racial tensions that are already ripping apart our communities. paul mueller joins us live from wiregrass ranch high school to explain why the pasco county school superintendent wasted no time here getting out in front of this problem because these pictures were starting to make the rounds on social media, paul. >> reporter: you got that right. they certainly were.

snapchat as well and tonight parents are saying the racial tensions are running high not only throughout the nation but right here at this school as well. the long white robe, the covered face and pointed hats, students claimed they were dressing up like ghosts, but the superintendent wasn't buying it. >> usually ghosts don't have pointed hats. >> reporter: instead dressed up like members of the ku klan. a 10th grader at the school. >> for him to see this today really hurt his spirit. >> reporter: yet another student wearing a confederate flag. what message does that send to a student? >> there needs to be a lesson, the fact that you cannot walk around spewing hate and discontent. >> reporter: the superintendent calls the cost actuals absolutely

>> it was completely the acceptable. >> reporter: a big lesson for the entire school community. is it a costume or what it stands for? >> if our kids are bringing this type of stuff to school, we need to figure out where it's coming from and hit it on the head and prevent this from continually happening. >> the race relations and everything else going on across our country, the last thing we need to do is have any student dressed up regardless of race dressed up in that type of costume. >> reporter: as for the three they'll be suspended one to 10 days. one kid wearing a confederate flag, no suspension for him. the reason, why keith, the school district has no so- called flag policy. >> well, hopefully this will be a learning experience for these young men and perhaps a conversation starter for everyone who saw the facebook and snapchat pictures you talked about there. we shall see. thank you, paul mueller reporting live for us tonight in pasco county.

want to catch uber, the service may soon be allowed to legally operate in hillsborough county. currently uber and lyft drivers face heavy fines if caught in hillsborough, put a proposed new deal requiring extensive background checks and insurance but no fingerprints may end the controversy. the only problem, cab companies continue to oppose the plan and it still has to be approved by the public transportation commission. >> it would prove that the ptc is on board with embracing new it would help rebuild the confidence with our state legislature by clearly showing them it's a new day in tampa bay. >> the ptc will vote on the proposed deal at their next meeting in october. we are keeping an eye on hurricane matthew tonight. our chief meteorologist steve jerve is joining us from the forecast center with a look at this latest track. >> it's a little stronger tonight, 80 mile-per-hour winds

northerly turn is eventually expected to happen. look at the satellite imagery as you can see down in the caribbean, a long way from the bay area, but a very healthy formed storm. you can see the convection clearly has been very consistent, not much change here on the infrared satellite imagery over the last 24 hours. in fact, this storm obviously has gotten stronger. 14.1 north, 68.8 west moving west at 14 miles per hour and 80 mile-per-hour winds. you can see that forecast track taking it just east of ma we're keeping an eye on the cone of error that may include portions of southeast florida. that position is about 400 miles southeast of miami tuesday later in the evening with potential 100 mile-per- hour winds. of course, that can change with land interaction, high wind shear values the next couple days. we got some pretty high observations in terms of winds from the hurricane hunter aircraft today, 91 mile-per- hour winds, so that certainly justifies the stronger

up later and keep an eye on it the next couple days. >> thank you, steve. terrifying and tragic images out of hoboken new jersey tonight, the aftermath of a massive crash at a busy rush hour train station. at least one person is dead, more than 100 injured. jenn holloway is live in our tampa news center. this train plowed right into the station do. we know yet why? >> no official cause yet, but you can bet federal investigators are checking each d eyewitness accounts. >> we heard people screaming in the first car trapped. they couldn't get out. >> i just hear these horrible terrifying screams coming out in shrieks, people just screaming for their lives. >> a violent crash exploded along the rails of a hoboken commuter train, transit 1614 facted with people on board jumped -- packed with people on board jumped the end of track bumpers. in its path?

glass, steel support beams and bricks came crashing down. killed in the train's path? a 34-year-old mother killed while standing on the platform. more than 100 others walked to a nearby hospital. a few transported with more serious injuries. something we have confirmed? rather than approaching the hoboken station at 2 or 3 miles per hour one rider says the conductor did not put on the brakes. >> the train felt like it it didn't brake. >> just a short while ago we learned more about the train driver, thomas gallagher. he's been an employee of the new jersey transit system for 29 years. he did survive the crash and is cooperating with investigators. >> more to come on this story. jen holloway tonight, thank you. we have some new information about yesterday's school shooting in south carolina. less than a week ago students and teachers at townville elementary school were practicing for something like

too, because five days later a 14-year-old boy walked into the school and opened fire shooting two students and a teacher. tonight a 6-year-old boy remains in the hospital. congratulations, you've won millions. you've likely seen the mailings many times. send in a small fee and your check will be on its way supposedly. a largo retiree sent in hundreds, even sold his car and now he's broke. his story can be a lesson to anyone caring for an person. con artists often go after people who trust a little too much. 8 on your side's peter bernard is live in pinellas county tonight and this poor guy just kept sending money. i think i know the answer, but has he won anything? >> reporter: nothing, zero. it's just a really sad case. here at the pinellas county consumer protection office they've seen this many times. it is not news to them. that means it's up to family and friends to spot a fraud

>> reporter: sweepstakes letters with promises of millions of dollars in prizes started arriving in 79-year-old ray smith's mailbox about two months ago. >> a prize of a car. one time it was two cars and some checks. >> reporter: to collect ray had to send in a small fee, then another small fee. >> and then there's a company that's supposed to be delivering the prize. everything they do they got to have some money. >> reporter: ray's good friend george fouling knew ray deep. >> -- fulk knew ray was in deep. >> i said raymond, it looks like a scam to me. any time you have to send money to get money, it's a scam of the. >> reporter: ray sold his '04 chevy malibu for $500 and sent that money in. this bicycle is his only way to get around. are you still hopeful they're coming through with the car and prizes and all these checks and things they promised? >> i'm hopeful, yeah. >> reporter: ray used western

than 250 another time. add item, ray sent in about $1,600, slightly more than his $1,400 a month social security check. in two months you've been sending the money and how much prize money have you received back? >> nothing yet. >> reporter: his friends points out they have no street address, no phone number. >> the fact that he sent him little checks in the beginning and they kept asking for more and more money showed me that it was a scam. >> reporter: through it all ray thinks riches are right around something out of it, but when i don't know. >> reporter: i had a good talk tonight face to face with him man to man with ray smith. for me this story is a repeat of the same kind of scam this i've seen time and time again. i told him flat out that he is being scammed, to please, please don't send any more money. i think he understands. hopefully his friend will be watching him. >> makes you so frustrated to

this. you know, hopefully he doesn't send any more money in, but it seems fairly obvious to a lot of folks, but point out some of the red flags because there are other guys out there like him. >> reporter: there's lots of people out there like him. i was thinking about that as we were coming back from our story how many other ray smiths are out there? you should never send in hope to enter a contest. as a matter of fact, that becomes illegal. that becomes a lottery and only the state can do that now. they only have a p.o. box, that's not a if you know somebody that could potentially be a victim of this, check on him. this guy here has daughters. they're kind of estranged, so he's kind of on his own, thank goodness for that friend who stepped up. still to come tonight a crook crashes an event meant to honor jose fernandez. >> coming up next the priceless item swiped from a bay area baseball field. >> plus ryan lochte innocent?

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it was an emotional day for family and friends of marlins pitcher jose fernandez wearing a no. 16 on their jersey. eight of his his coffin. the 24-year-old was one of three people killed when the boat they were in crashed into a jetty early sunday morning. family and staff at alonso high school are experiencing a range of emotions following fender's death. right along with his great sadness they have is some anger and frustration because last night following a vigil for fernandez who was a star player at alonso someone stole one of his jerseys right from the dugout. the principal at the school had a hard time expressing to us

happened here. >> you know, normally in our business we try to figure out a way why did this happen? sometimes there's a reason that you can at least live with. i can't think ofone single reason why someone would do that. i just can't. >> the school posted pictures of the jersey on social media and reported the theft to the sheriff's office. federal fund to help fight the zika virus may flowing into florida. $397million will go towards vaccine and diagnostic development and some of that could make its way to the university of south florida where research is already underway. >> the money is opening up, so we're fairly optimistic that we'll be able to start manufacture these studies and get them -- start many of these studies and get them going as well. >> 109 cases of zika in our

florida. officials may think ryan lochte made up the story about being robbed in rio, but his father believes his son is innocent. the four time olympian won a dozen medals, six gold, but recent accomplishments have been overshadowed about accusations lochte lied about a drunken night at a gas station involving a gun and holdup. lochte's father said there's a three minute video the public has not seen yet that vindicates his son's story. >> it's guards had guns pointed to my son's chest and money was extracted. so i don't know what you call that. i know what i would call it. >> i'm just trying to move on, move forward and now that i'm putting that all behind me. >> the u.s. olympic committee banned lochte from swimming for 10 months. lochte was in ormond beach last night for a charity swim. he was given a hometown welcome when he showed up. now to some incredible

boy bound to a wheelchair. >> keelanhaggens is 4 years old and watched football from the sidelines wishing he was scoring the winning touchdown. this weekend his dream came true when players from both teams escorted him to the end zone. when he was born, he weighed a little more than a pound, but his mother said he's got the heart of a warrior. >> as a mother, it's easy job, but i would tell my another keep your faith, pray to god and never let your child down. whatever dreams that your child has, let them exceed their dreams because i do. >> coaches say, as you can imagine, there wasn't a dry eye on the field. quite a few showers on and off through the day, still some shower chances overnight and in the morning hours tomorrow. that makes for rainbows, this

thanks for that picture. friday night blitz for tomorrow night kickoff weather 82 degrees, warm day maybe some scattered storms remaining, warm, muggy. by the end of the game a lot of the shower activity should be tapering off, upper 70s for most of the area. back to the wes of us showers and thunderstorms -- west of us showers and thunderstorms continue to move west to east. a few might occur overnight and in the morning commute not impossible to see a few showers at 7 a.m. 76 degrees, at noon 83 degrees, 87 degrees at 4 p.m. tomorrow dry air off to our northwest, a quieter day in terms of rain saturday. 73 clearwater, 74 now in zephyrhills, winter haven, apollo beach, 76 in sarasota. this is high above in the atmosphere and it tends to take a lot of the moisture away. it kind of decreases the chance of showers.

the northern parts of the state and other parts of the south, quite a bit of moisture across the central and southern portion of the state. there's the difference on the satellite imagery, hardly a cloud in the sky. a few showers continue to our west. we think the dry air is making progress to the south and help stabilize things. the rain chance tomorrow perhaps favors areas from the bay area, farther south, sarasota, manatee, southern areas. if you missed this at the top of the newscast, matthew is hour winds. overall the nhc track is following the rough model trend. tuesday at 8 p.m. about 400 miles southeast of miami. on that current forecast position the cone of error would skirt the east coast of florida. the computer models have been fairly consistent the past several runs. there's the northerly turn. you can see the general

of course, we hope for, that just clear all of the united states. some of the models take it fairly close to the cape hatteras area, outer banks of north carolina. in the overnight a few scattered showers possible, that front to the north of us and the drier air. we'll leave that chance of seeing a shower before noon including for the morning hours moving west to east as the day goes along. overall a 40% chance. that drier a may have enough impact to give us a slightly lower rain saturday afternoon drier air definitely having an impact on other parts of the south. 76 degrees our forecast low temperature, 87 degrees in the afternoon and again we're looking for high temperatures to stay fairly high in the upper 80s, pretty close to seasonal averages but maybe a little warm. rain chances will be near seasonal or above normal with the excessive moisture we'll have in our atmosphere, but long term if matthew moves off our eastern coast, we could see

western side of matthew. that would help draw in drier air thursday and friday. a lot could happen in that time. just got to stay tuned, but if it did, it might help it be drier here if it stayed off to our east. >> that would be nice. coming up the bucs get set for the broncos rookie quarterback and that guy is lighting up the league this season. >> the tampa bay lightning battle their alligator alley rivals in preseason action, highlights ahead with paul ryan >> we want to reminder you about the 26 -- remind you about the 2016 tampa bay heart walk. fuccillo kia is matching the first 50 grand. you can go to www.wfla.com/heartwalk for details. >> a patient has been living with a neurological disorder over 40 years, how we can help save lives like hers. >> plus weather and traffic on the 8's on news channel 8

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i have a lot of respect for james. >> i think he is an amazing quarterback. >> getting thrown into that position right away and they've had such success right away. >> i've got to focus on the defense side of the ball, but he's been doing he's winning. >> jameis winston and trevor siemian have taken distinct paths to this point in their nfl careers, but sunday their roads intersect at raymond james stadium. two years ago the tampa bay buccaneers took winston as first overall pick in the nfl draft. 249 selections later the denver broncos snatched siemian up in the seventh round, the seventh of seven quarterbacks taken. while the former has become the

was seen much as a stopgap, but that may not be the case. siemian is 3-0, but more impressive than his record is the way he's progressed from game manager to bona fide nfl caliber qb in two weeks. anyone who tells you they saw this coming is lying, well, almost anyone. one guy legitimately unsurprised to stardom, buccaneers tight end denny vitaly. >> i've always seen it and kind of known especially in a pro style offense that was a great fit for him and when you got coaches and staff with elway and kubiak who can develop a guy who is just a raw talent, i think he just ended up in a great situation as well. i'm not surprised at all. hockey season is here, second exhibition game for the

15 in blue gets his cage rattled, but you give up the body and make a play. lightning 1-0 and that's all they need. tampa bay 2-0. to toronto world cup of hockey canada versus europe game two, best of three. the underdog strikes first, zarra top shelf, canada on the powepl play. patrice bergeron tips home the shot tied 1-1. in the final minute europe on the power play. check out the dime from jonathan taves. canada wins 2-1. canucks haven't lost an international competition since 2010. the rays are in rain delay again in chicago.

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steve, we get up in the morning, looking at 76 degrees, do you think, something like that? >> you looked at the monitor. pretty soon you're going to phase me out of this thing. >> clouds, spotty coastal rain? >> writing is on the wall, you don't >> few morning showers possible there, not that you needed me to say that. >> there's a ticker, you want to read it? in our night cap next time you go to busch gardens stop by and say hi to oliver, the endangered baby western lowland gorilla born august 18th cared for by his mom mary. he's the seventh baby gorilla to be born at the tampa park.

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[ cheers and applause ] ? >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- margot robbie,